Trustees
To contact Tracey Bruce, the Chair of Trustees, please email clerk@sparkwell.devon.sch.uk or write via the school office and mark the envelope as for the Chair of Trustees
Read the profile of a Trustee here
Find information about the role of a parent Trustee here
Any new Trustee will be asked to complete an application form and we will do a reference check and carry out a full DBS so that we can safeguard our children.
Meet the Trustees
Tracey Bruce
Chair of Trustees
Responsibility for EYFS and safeguarding
Chris Bailey
Elected Trustee
Responsibility for Finance
Becky Lanyon
Parent Trustee
Jon Hall
Elected Trustee
Finance Committee & GDPR Officer
Tom Andrew
Elected Trustee
Safeguarding Deputy
Jenny Sparkes
Staff Trustee
Laura Newbery
Parent Trustee
Responsibility for Pupil Premium
Claire Taylor
Parent Trustee
Responsibility for health and safety and SEND
The headteacher is also a Trustee. The Trustees meet 6 times a year with an annual AGM in December. There is also a finance committee that usually meets 3 times per year.
We also have 3 Directors of the Sparkwell All Saints Primary Trust, also known as Members. Our members are: Robin May, Geoff Perham, Caroline Lucas and the current Chair of Trustees also serves as a member. They meet as required, usually 2-3 times a year, but are separate from our Trustee Board.
See below the annual audit and financial report for 2021-22
The Role of the Board of Trustees:
The Board of Trustees is responsible for the conduct of its school, and must promote high standards of educational achievement at the school. It is the school’s accountable body and as such:
provides a strategic view of the school by establishing a vision and setting the purpose and aims of the school within an agreed policy framework. It appoints and performance manages the headteacher, agreeing the school improvement strategy which includes setting statutory targets with supporting budgets and staffing structures;
monitors and evaluates the work of the school by reviewing the performance of the headteacher, the effectiveness of the policy framework, progress towards targets, and the effectiveness of the school improvement strategy including overseeing the spending of the annual budget;
ratifies the self evaluation process and responds to school improvement service and Ofsted reports as necessary. In addition it holds the headteacher to account for the performance of the school and ensures that parents are involved, consulted and informed as appropriate, with information to the community being made available as required.
In order to do this, governors need to gain knowledge of how the school operates through training, by attending meetings, and by getting to know their school community, for example through a small number of visits to the school during the school day.
If you would like to contact the Trustees directly, please email the main email address below and mark it FAO Chair of Trustees. You can request a copy of minutes from the school office.
As is required by the DfE, below is a summary of information on those who held a governor role during 2020-21:
Some Trustees attend additional finance committee meetings, therefore the total possible number of meetings may vary. All meetings this academic year have been held via Zoom (however some Trustees had technical or other reasons making attendance difficult).
All terms of office are 4 years.
Trustee Attendance 2021-22.docx